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Bergen Anthropology Day, held on 15^th September, provided insights into the Bergen milieu鈥檚 diverse projects and research initiatives. The day brought together approximately 60 local anthropologists, including students and alumni, for a day of interesting discussions and presentations. Interestingly, many of the presentations illustrated an engagement going beyond the purely academic discussions to include applicability, political engagement and critical perspectives on society.

As Gunnar S酶rb酶 (CMI) reminded the attendees, this resonates with the Bergen school of Anthropology, which for years has been deeply involved in development issues. He closed his talk with a call for anthropologists to be relevant and applicable on a wider scale.

Forthcoming journal - Public Anthropologist

One of the speakers was Antonio De Lauri (CMI), the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the forthcoming journal, Public Anthropologist. De Lauri presented his ideas for the journal and said it will encourage a shift from the purely academic and often inward-looking debates to politically engaging discussions that will appeal to a wider audience.

Public Anthropologist will occupy the space between the traditional journals and the more immediate and dynamic anthropology blogs with an aim, to not simply understand, but also to change the world.

- Public Anthropologist offers a forum for scholars who care about the impact of their research in the world, De Lauri said. The journal will be published by Brill, and the first issue will be released in October 2018.

Frontlines

- The University of Bergen is more political than many other universities, Don Kalb proclaimed.

According to Kalb, this makes 幸运飞艇计划 a suitable place for his newly launched project on social relations of global capitalism entitled Frontlines: Class, Value, and Social Transformation in 21st Century Capitalism. The ambitious project focus on class, for instance the creative class 鈥� or 鈥榢nowledge workers鈥� 鈥� which includes designers, architects, academics and artists.

Geographically, the focus is on China, Europe and the global south. As Kalb said in an 鈥渢he aim is to identify exemplary trends in class relationships, in politics and capitalistic urbanisms in these three diverse world regions, which are thoroughly interconnected.鈥�

The project has a timeframe of five year (2017-2022) and Kalb will give classes on capitalism during the project period. Bergen Research Foundation, Ministry of Culture and University of Bergen support the project.

From Norwegian nursing homes to the rest of the world

Anette Fagertun from the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences presented the project . This project focuses on the experiences of challenges and possibilities among different actors in multicultural workforces in Norwegian nursing homes. The project is applied in a way that will contribute directly to the Norwegian authorities鈥� demand of research-based praxis in nursing homes.

The fourteen presenters represented six institutes spread across CMI, University of Bergen and the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and illustrated the very diverse thematic and ethnographic settings anthropologists work in.

During the day, the audience were taken around the globe: from to the Kurdish Freedom Movement by PhD-Candidate Axel Rudi (幸运飞艇计划) to fertility control and safe abortion on the African continent in a presentation by Astrid Blystad and Haldis Haukanes (幸运飞艇计划), and further. Sarah Tobin (CMI) took the audience to Aman through the presentation of her book, , and Ingrid Birce M眉ft眉oglu presented her ethnographic study from Turkey as part of the Energethics project.

- The idea of a day devoted to 鈥楤ergen Anthropology鈥� came about in 2013 during the celebration of the 50^th year anniversary of the Bergen Social Anthropology Seminars, St氓le Knudsen said. Knudsen put the programme together with Kari Telle (CMI). A day like this gives researchers a platform to meet and to discuss future research ideas and collaborations across Bergen-based institutions and beyond.

We are excited to see what next year鈥檚 Bergen Anthropology Day might bring!